DESCRIPTION:
(Poem by Erik Engles)
Dan Rathbun is a musician, instrument builder, and sculptor of sound. Having spent 12 years as a core member of the rock circus Idiot Flesh and 8 with Charming Hostess he now plays with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.
Dan co-owns Polymorph Recording Studio and has produced and recorded countless CD's and records in a wide range of styles. Dan has worked with Shinichi Iova-Koga since 1996 and is a founding member of the performance collective known as inkBoat (formerly Uro Teatr Koku).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_Composition_Society
The Immersion Composition Society (ICS) is an underground network of composers, organized into independent groups, called lodges, who periodically spend one or more days composing unusually large volumes of music for the purpose of creating raw material for their new projects. There are several dozen publicized lodges in the U.S, Canada, Europe, and South America. The book The Frustrated Songwriter's Handbook details the ICS approach to creative songwriting.
The Immersion Composition Society was started in Oakland, California by two songwriters, Nicholas Dobson and Michael Iago Mellender. Noticing that they were spending large amounts of time thinking about music and waiting for inspiration to strike — instead of actually writing music — in early 2001 they developed a new songwriting method that involved composing prolifically while trying to avoid any kind of self-editing or self-consciousness.

The result was a songwriting "game" that took place over the course of a single day. They both began to play it compulsively. Within a year, Dobson and Mellender had formed a society of songwriters, and this game — which came to be called the "20-Song Game", was its central activity.

Artwork by Ward C. Picnic (Per Frykdahl)